Donald Wandrei 32 min read

In the thirty-fourth century, the astronomer Phobar spots a new star of terrible brilliance in Hercules, a dark star beginning a conquest unparalleled in all stellar history.

Donald Wandrei's 1932 story is a sweeping, cosmic-scale space opera of galactic invasion and superscience. Grand, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing far-future epic where a wandering dark star threatens the universe, and one astronomer sounds the alarm.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

32 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).